U.S. monopolies tightening
srip on Vancouver, says Rush

The statement that the “ruthlessness with which big monopolies and their spokesmen in Van-
couver City Hall, the reactionary Non-Partisan administration, apply pressure to citizens through in-
creased charges and taxes, is connected with the growing U.S. control of our economy,” was thade by
Maurice Rush, new LPP city secretary, speaking to the Vancouver city convention of the Labor-Pro-

gressive party.

Plan for
offsetting
layofts

“Workers do not have to take
layoffs lying down,” in the opinion
of Harvey Murphy, Western re-
gional director of the Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers’ Union, as
expressed in an interview with th
Pacific Tribune this week. :

Outlining a bold plan to ‘combat
the effects of cut-backs in produc-
tion, Murphy stated: :

“Our union at its recent conven-
tion agreed in principle with this
proposal which I have since elab~
orated in a radio address at Trail.
How does this plan work? Well,
let us assume the employer is con-
templating a 20 percent layoff of
his employees.

“We would counter with the pro-
posal in place of a layoff of a rota-
tion system of work among all of
the employees. Every worker
would retain his job. Every work-
er would work four weeks and
would lay off on the fifth. On his
week off the worker would draw
unemployment insurance.

“The net loss in income to the
workers. would be very small in
comparison with the loss that. would
be suffered by the unemployed
workers in a 20 percent layoff, par-
ticularly in one-industry towns such
as Trail.”

“T have made a rough estimation

_ of the net loss to a miner, married
and with two children, whose earn-
ings are about $3500. It would be
about $300 after taking into ac-
count unemployment insurance pay-

-ments and reduced income tax be-
cause of the lower annual earnings.

“Compare this loss with the

effect of large-scale unemploy-

ment in a town with a single large
company where many workers
would be compelled to leave their
homes, and move to new locations
some distance away usually at
considerable expense and with
much hardship for themselves
and families to say nothing of
small business dependent upon

their trade. 2 z o

“An important feature of -this
plan is that it maintains the org-
anized strength of the workers,
there would be no large number of
workers dropping out of the unions
into the ranks of the unemployed.
By the same token there would be
no large army of unemployed that
could be used by the employers as
a weapon against the trade union
movement, to lower wages and
worsen the conditions of work of

those workers who still had jobs.

“Is the plan realistic? Within

certain limits and in certain indus-
tries it is. Of course, if the cut
back is much greater than 20 per-
cent, say 40 or 50 percent, the plan
would not be very practicible. But
assuming around 20 percent or less,
and with industrial workers in this
country nunibering around three
million, a 20 percent reduction
means 600,000 unemployed, which
is.a pretty drastic situation.

“So far as unemployment insur-
ance goes, under the plan 100 per-
cent of the workers would con-
tinue to pay it, but of course, all
of the workers in industries affect-
ed by layoff and using the rotation’
system -would draw benefits one
week in every five.

“The unemployment insurance
fund on March 81, 1952, stood at
$778,000,000 compared with $664,-

TE TL

Unionists pay
last. tribute to

Frank Carlisle

t * With the Vancouver Firefight-
ers Union providing a guard of
honor, most of the city’s leading
trade unionists were among those
who attended funeral services on
Wednesday this week for ‘Frank
Carlisle, business agent for Local
70, International Brotherhood of
Plumbers and Steanmfitters.

Carlisle, 62-year old _ First
World War veteran, was one of
six men who perished last week
after the plane in which they were
flying from Kemano to Vancou-
ver made a forced landing. near
Butedale. The pilot, James Sid-
dle, and his six pasengers elected
to swim but only Siddle reached
shore. Carlisle’s body was found
miles from the scene and brought
here for burial.

A fellow unionist, Robert Wat-
son, vice-president of Local 70,
was also among the victims.

CUOMO UME eM Mt Oe Tn nt ee tet TE AT

. e
Continued
all citizéns and organizations to
support the position of the Civic
Unity Council by making repre-
sentations to city council.

First demand on aldermen for
protection against racial discrim-
ination came as the result of the
slaying on a city street of an im-

migrant Polish worker, Stanley
Deren. :

rainian Canadians, Federation. of
Russian Canadians, Polish Demo-
cratic Association, Council of Can-
-adian South Slavs and the Work-
ers Benevolent Association met
Mayor Fred Hume and city council
on July 30, 1951, calling on them
to introduce a civic bylaw against
discrimination.

Shortly after this campaign was
taken up by the Joint Committee
Against Racial Discrimination of
the two central labor councils.

Excuse given= by Corporation
counsel Russell Baker for the lic-
‘ense committee’s rejection of the
proposed clause on discrimination
is that it is already covered by
proposed federal legislation. How-
ever, this argument is without foun-
dation. 5 ‘

The federal legislation covers only
those employers with whom the
federal government has contracts,
federal employees, and those in-
dustries over which the federal goy-
ernment has jurisdiction in labor
relations, railways, airlines and
shipping. :

The requested civic bylaw makes
it “unlawful for any licensee in the
city of Vancouver to discriminate
against any member of the public
who for payment seeks the goods

such member of the public. . .
There have been innumerable cases
of such discrimination in the city,
particularly against Negroes.

Need for this bylaw has been
sharply underlined by the circum-
stances attending the death of
Clarence Clemens and the conduct
of the inquest. :

”

000,000 on March 381, 1951, and

now, so it would also be practical
‘from that standpoint.”

The Association .of United Uk-

or services of such licensee merely Sunworthy Wallpaper
because of race, creed or color of

must be close to a billion dollars

“The B.C. Telephone is an Am-
erican company, the B.C. Electric
is more and more coming under the
control of New York financial in-
terests,” Rush pointed out, charg-
ing that “these foreign capitalists
show an even greater contempt for
the public interest than our domes-
tie tycoon, regarding Canada as a
mere colony.” :

Rush continued: “Vancouver is
suffering in two other important
aspects from the sell-out of Can-
adian independence to Wall Street.

“One is the decline of exports,
particularly to China, which has
impaired Vancouver’s status as a
great seaport.

“The other is the decline in the
development of secondary indus-
tries, of manufacturing, as Can-
ada’s dependent position becomes
more pronounced. We are relegat-
ed to producing raw materials for
the industrial juggernaut to the
south, and this is responsible for
the unhappy fact that there is not
‘a single steel mill or aluminum fab-
ricating plant in this area.

“The Labor - Progressive party,
alone among the political organiza-
tions.in this country, hag defended.
the national interests of our people
by opposing the sell-out. \Red-bait-
ing is becoming less and less effect-
ive in the trade unions and. else-
where because more people every
day see the Communists as they
are, not as they are painted.

“It was the LPP membership,
more than any other single force,
that sparked the great petition cam-
paign against increased transit fares
last spring. It was the LPP mem-
bership that Jed in the successful
fight against further milk price in-
creases to the consumer, in the cam-
paign to save the Little Moutain
housing project, and against in-
creased telephene rates.

“This is one of the reasons the
vote for progressive candidates,
including members of the LPP,
increased so greatly in the last
civic elections.” _

Turning to the coming elections,
provincial and federal, Rush stated:
s

: “The focal point of our activity
in the next few months will be to
Carry our program to as many Van-
csuver homes as possible, and to
achieve this end we will nominate
a large number of candidates to

contest provincial ridings in the
city.”

Eighty delegates, representing 27
chibs, elected a new city committtee
and unanimously. elected Maurice
Rush as city secretary.

Among’ resolutions passed was
one sharply condemning anti-demo-

cratic features of the proposed new
city charter,

ihn hil |) ill

New federal riding

Scott will

“Only one party — the Labor-
Progressive party — stands in op-
position to the St. Laurent govern-
ment’s subservience to the U.S, in
carrying through its war plans,”
declared Jack Scott,
trade unionist, in accepting nomin-

well known

Vancouver-Kingsway federal
stituency at a public nominating
meeting held in Victoria Drive Com-
munity Hall on Tuesday this week.

con-

“Angus MacInnis, the sitting CCF
member for Vancouver East (which
formerly included King$way), who
has been nominated to contest
Kingsway, has shown himself to be
a willing partner in the govern-
ment’s war policy and has betrayed
this constituents’ ingerests by failing
to speak out in defense of Canadian
independence and for friendly rela-
tions with all countries.”

Scott, now a shipyard worker,
has a long record of service to the
labor movement, both in this prov-
ince and in eastern Canada. He is
a member of the Marine Workers

Kingsway for LPP |}

ation as LPP candidate for the new.

contest

‘ % t
and Boilermakers Union and a dele
gate to Vancouver Labor Council:

Now 42 years old, he is a veterat
of the Second World War, in which
he was awarded the Croix de GuertT®
and received a Canadian Army cit@
tion for gallantry at Louvignys
France.

(His particular concern is the deo
cline of the maritime and shipbuild- :
ing industries in the postwar perio —
which he links directly to the g0Y
ernment’s cold war policies.

“Friendly relations with all t
countries, and especially trade
with People’s China, can be the
means of restoring our merchant
fleet, occupying our shipyards
and bolstering employment,” he
told his audience this week.

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